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Fundamental research in molecular biology: relevance to medicine*

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Molecular biology has given us new insights into many phenomena of clinical importance; it has suggested new therapeutic approaches to several diseases and has provided sensitive new methods for detecting chemical carcinogens. None of these applications had been foreseen.

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